Re: [tied] Themis

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 45539
Date: 2006-07-26

On 2006-07-26 13:16, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:

> A suggestion: hypostasis of /thémi 'sti/ 'it is law' => dat. 'by law',
> generating a stem thémist- 'law'.

Ingenious. That would make the "easy" -i-stem older than the "difficult"
consonantal variant, contrary to what's usually suggested. <tHemis
esti(n)> is a fixed phrase if there ever was one in Ancient Greek.

Piotr

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